60-Inch Rows: Our Hail Mary Pass At Growing Cotton
By Darrell VandeVen
Cotton Farming Magazine
When we started picking cotton in the fall of 2019, my brother, Donnie, and I finally faced the reality that the crop just wasn’t working for us anymore.
Our cost of production was too high, and the price we usually received was too low for the numbers to pencil out.
We seriously considered quitting it altogether and just growing corn, soybeans and rice. We even went as far as putting our picker on the market. As harvest progressed, we went back and forth almost daily on our plans going forward.